| Instrument | Status/
Accuracy | Instrument Description | Measurement Technology | Timeline |
| CSG SAR | Operational | All-weather images of ocean, land and ice for monitoring of land surface processes, ice, environmental monitoring, risk management, environmental resources, maritime management, Earth topographic mapping. | Imaging radar (SAR) |  |
| PALSAR-2 | Operational | Disaster monitoring, land monitoring, agricultural monitoring, natural resource exploration, global forest monitoring, potential use and interferometry. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| PALSAR-3 | Operational | Disaster monitoring, land monitoring, agricultural monitoring, natural resource exploration, global forest monitoring, potential use and interferometry. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| PAZ SAR-X | Operational | High resolution X-band radar for security, land use, urban management, environmental monitoring, risk management. Spotlight, Scansar and Stripmap acquisition modes. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SAR (RADARSAT-2) | Operational | All-weather images of ocean, ice and land surfaces. Used for monitoring of coastal zones, polar ice, sea ice, sea state, geological features, vegetation and land surface processes. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SAR (RCM) | Operational | All-weather, C-band data to support ecosystem monitoring, maritime surveillance and disaster management. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| SAR-L | Operational | Land, ocean, emergencies, soil moisture, interferometry, others. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| S-band SAR | Operational | SAR imagery for a range of applications including agriculture, maritime and forestry | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| S-Band SAR (HJ-2) | Operational | Radar measurements for natural and disaster monitoring. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| S-band SAR (NISAR) | Operational | 3-year mission to study solid earth deformation (earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides), changes in ice (glaciers, sea ice) and changes in vegetation biomass | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| Varuna SAR | Being developed | X-band synthetic aperture radar for maritime surveillance, vessel detection and classification, dark-vessel detection, illegal fishing monitoring, oil-spill monitoring and SAR-AIS data fusion. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| L-Band SAR | Approved | L-band SAR instrument combining wide swath, high spatial resolution, high sensitivity, low ambiguity ratios, full polarimetric acquisition capability, and repeat-pass interferometry to support the retrieval of surface deformation over vegetated terrain, above-ground biomass density, soil moisture, land cover and land-cover change, flooded area information, ice sheet and glacier velocity, snow water, sea-ice conditions (type, concentration and motion), ocean winds and sea state conditions, as well as enhancing European maritime situational awareness. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |
| Advanced SAR | No longer considered | High resolution microwave radar images for ice watch. | Imaging radar (SAR) | |